Have you ever seen Big O? Once part of Toonami’s animation block, I feel like it’s a series that’s largely become forgotten. In fact, I’ve even forgotten much of it, but I do remember the Christmas episode. It’s a unique one in anime, not only because it features tentacled Christmas trees (oh, Japan) and an… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 4: Big O
In this Christmas episode, Harima’s quest for Tenma’s heart, the central theme of the majority of the School Rumble series, continues on. He starts off the holidays with his own personal style, dressed as Santa in a jail cell lying among a pile of manga pages he just finished. The manga he just wrote, like everything else, revolves… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 3: School Rumble
One issue that fans often have with anime is that too often the guy and girl in a series never end up together – by series or season end they “kind of” confess without actually making the leap into a relationship. Love Hina never had this problem. By my count, in the anime there were… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 2: Love Hina
On several occasions in our podcast, I’ve made it clear that Bartender is one of my all-time favorite anime. Despite its technical flaws, its thematic focus through episodic directing and frequently breaking the fourth wall, all while aimed at a more mature audience (in the sense of intellect and emotions, not sexual content) culminate in… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 1: Bartender
Each Christmastime on Beneath the Tangles, our writers participate in a series of post we call the “12 Days of Christmas Anime.” As the title indicates, each day, we chat about an episode of anime that involves Christmas. We start tomorrow and run through December 25th. This year, we’ll be revisiting some favorites that we’ve… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime
Christmas is less than two weeks away! I can hardly wait! On Beneath the Tangles, we’ll be doing the special series of posts we do every year, and I hope that the anime blogosphere will deliver some thoughtful posts about the season as well. Until then, visit the great trio of wonderful articles linked below:… Read More Something More: Pandora Sins, Avatar Religion, and Your Friendship in April
Your Lie in April (Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso) had danced in and out of the theme of grace for nine episodes, and so, I expected the gospel message to be delivered in it’s full force at some point – I just didn’t know it would come so soon. This was a precious, precious episode.… Read More Your Lie in April, Episode 10: Love Song
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